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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Intel must give the government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds; INTC closes up 7% (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/lutnick-intel-stock-chips-trump.html

Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
The potential deal would convert the CHIPS ACT grants into equity, but wouldn't come with governance rights in Intel, Lutnick said.

What’s happening in #libraries with terms like “DEI,” “diversity,” & “equity?” What’s lost or gained by turning away from this vocabulary? Join the discussion at the 9/22 DLF Committee for #Equity & #Inclusion

Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post-money valuation of $200B, weeks after reportedly raising $10B in debt and equity at a ~$150B valuation (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/musks-xai-10-billion-at-200-billion-valuation.html

Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources
The fundraising comes weeks after Musk raised $10 billion in debt and equity at what was believed to be a roughly $150 billion valuation, according to Faber.

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Durgadevi Velusamy, Hana E. Hinkle, Zhi Li, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Hikmat Khan, Srini Ramaswamy, Pir Masoom Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11738

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Rural healthcare faces persistent challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, workforce shortages, and socioeconomic disparities that hinder access to essential services. This study investigates the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing these issues in underserved rural areas. We systematically reviewed 109 studies published between 2019 and 2024 from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus. Articles were screened using PRISMA guidelines and…

For DC's upcoming report on how historic preservation promotes equity, here's a fine case study.
Guy bought historic townhouse in Alexandria in 2021. Converted three apartments “into something that Louis XIV would be proud of.” A 6-bedroom house with inlaid marble, gold leaf ceilings, gold toilets & a gold fireplace grate from a French chateau.
https://

Ornate Alexandria townhouse is styled after Versailles
House of the Week | Six-bedroom, five-bath ‘The Prince’ has a Midas touch, selling for $4 million.

Randy Villegas is an educator, activist, and proud son of immigrants. Born and raised in Kern, California, in a working-class family, Randy knows firsthand the challenges that many Central Valley families face.
His journey - from earning a PhD to teaching and organizing for change - has been rooted in one core belief: that government should work for everyone, not just the powerful few.
With deep ties to our community and a lifelong commitment to justice and equity, Randy is running…

To What Extent Can Public Equity Indices Statistically Hedge Real Purchasing Power Loss in Compounded Structural Emerging-Market Crises? An Explainable ML-Based Assessment
Artem Alkhamov, Boris Kriuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13055

To What Extent Can Public Equity Indices Statistically Hedge Real Purchasing Power Loss in Compounded Structural Emerging-Market Crises? An Explainable ML-Based Assessment
This study investigates the extent to which local public equity indices can statistically hedge real purchasing power loss during compounded structural macro-financial collapses in emerging markets. We employ a non-linear multiplicative real return calculations consistent with Fisher-parity logics for both domestic and foreign investors with a principled quantile regression, tail dependence copula analysis, and Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) to assess the explanatory power of macro variab…

There are "concerns that the deal could lead to widespread store closures, layoffs and reduced access to healthcare in vulnerable communities."
What’s Next for Walgreens Following its Private Equity Sale? - MedCity News
https://medcitynews.com/2025/09/walgreens-private-equity-sale/

AlphaAgents: Large Language Model based Multi-Agents for Equity Portfolio Constructions
Tianjiao Zhao, Jingrao Lyu, Stokes Jones, Harrison Garber, Stefano Pasquali, Dhagash Mehta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11152

AlphaAgents: Large Language Model based Multi-Agents for Equity Portfolio Constructions
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) agents is evolving rapidly, driven by the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to autonomously perform and refine tasks with human-like efficiency and adaptability. In this context, multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a promising approach, enabling multiple AI agents to work together to solve complex challenges. This study investigates the application of role-based multi-agent systems to support stock selection in equity research and portfo…

Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is exploring government equity stakes in return for CHIPS Act funding from Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/t…

I am using Desktop Linux¹ for decades because it is woke and gay²!
We want all the gay and merry people playing together :-)
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¹specifically Debian
²read @… in https://

“How did a sports scene like #MiLB minor league #baseball—with a more than 100-year history of silly mascots, intimate hometown stadiums, and local ownership—get devoured so quickly by #PrivateEquity?”

Sentiment Feedback in Equity Markets: Asymmetries, Retail Heterogeneity, and Structural Calibration
Lucas Marques Sneller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11970 https://

Sentiment Feedback in Equity Markets: Asymmetries, Retail Heterogeneity, and Structural Calibration
We study how sentiment shocks propagate through equity returns and investor clientele using four independent proxies with sign-aligned kappa-rho parameters. A structural calibration links a one standard deviation innovation in sentiment to a pricing impact of 1.06 basis points with persistence parameter rho = 0.940, yielding a half-life of 11.2 months. The impulse response peaks around the 12-month horizon, indicating slow-moving amplification. Cross-sectionally, a simple D10-D1 portfolio earns…

Q&A with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, a book on PE firms' impact on media and other industries, on unionization efforts, nonprofit outlets, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/megan-gr

Megan Greenwell on How Private Equity Is Devastating the Media
A conversation with the author of Bad Company.

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell steps down amid conflict of interest, collusion controversies

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nflpa-e

Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress to monitor sleep stages and more, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/eight-sleep-grabs-100m-to-bring-ai-into-y…

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech | TechCrunch
The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.

Just finished "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. It's a great graphic novel about period equity and teen activism, with a lot of depth through a variety of intertwined sub-plots.
#AmReading

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Marketron Through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Igor Halperin, Andrey Itkin

Genuinely surprised the DoJ is following through on this given its new effort to marginalize disabled people.
“US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

Urban AI Governance Must Embed Legal Reasonableness for Democratic and Sustainable Cities
Rashid Mushkani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12174 https://arxiv.or…

Urban AI Governance Must Embed Legal Reasonableness for Democratic and Sustainable Cities
This position paper argues that embedding the legal "reasonable person" standard in municipal AI systems is essential for democratic and sustainable urban governance. As cities increasingly deploy artificial intelligence (AI) systems, concerns around equity, accountability, and normative legitimacy are growing. This paper introduces the Urban Reasonableness Layer (URL), a conceptual framework that adapts the legal "reasonable person" standard for supervisory oversight in municipal AI systems, i…

Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/saas-ai-scheduling-startup-boule…

Salon Software Platform Boulevard Nearly Doubles Valuation To $800M With $80M Series D
Los Angeles-based Boulevard, a business management software platform for self-care businesses, has raised $80 million in Series D funding led by JMI Equity, the company announced on Thursday.

"…so what exactly is going on between publishers and the NIH?" @ ACRLog: https://acrlog.org/2025/07/15/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-between-publishers-and-the-nih/

The impact of brand equity on vertical integration in franchise systems
Mohammad Kayed, Manish Kacker, Ruhai Wu, Farhad Sadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06824 https://

The impact of brand equity on vertical integration in franchise systems
Brand equity and vertical integration are focal, strategic elements of a franchise system that can profoundly influence franchise performance. Despite the recognized importance of these two strategic levers and the longstanding research interest in the topic, our understanding of the interplay between brand equity and vertical integration (company ownership of outlets) in a franchise system remains incomplete. In this study, we revisit the five-decade-old question of how brand equity affects ve…

Gerald Epstein, a leading expert on finance and financial crises,
warns that Trump’s executive order on retirement accounts
not only comes with high risks,
but the so-called alternative assets deliver, at best, average returns.
https://truthout.org…

What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire
More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.

Reducing the weight of low exam scores may raise average grades but does not appear to impact equity gaps
Nicholas T. Young, Rebecca L. Matz, Eric F. Bell, Caitlin Hayward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09906

Reducing the weight of low exam scores may raise average grades but does not appear to impact equity gaps
Students interpret grades as signals of their strengths, and grades inform students' decisions about majors and courses of study. Differences in grades that are not related to learning can impact this judgment and have real-world impact on course-taking and careers. Existing work has examined how an overemphasis on high-stakes exams can create equity gaps where female students and Black, Hispanic, and Native American students earn lower grades than male students and Asian and white students, re…

DC historic districts, where it's very hard to build new housing, contain 20% of city's population. All but a few are wealthy white areas. DC Office of Planning agrees to study historic districts' equity effects.
Then it turns around & turns study over to preservation advocates.

Equity Premium Prediction: Taking into Account the Role of Long, even Asymmetric, Swings in Stock Market Behavior
Kuok Sin Un, Marcel Ausloos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10483 ht…

Equity Premium Prediction: Taking into Account the Role of Long, even Asymmetric, Swings in Stock Market Behavior
Through a novel approach, this paper shows that substantial change in stock market behavior has a statistically and economically significant impact on equity risk premium predictability both on in-sample and out-of-sample cases. In line with Auer's ''Bullish ratio'', a ''Bullish index'' is introduced to measure the changes in stock market behavior, which we describe through a ''fluctuation detrending moving average analysis'' (FDMAA) for returns. We consider 28 indicators. We find that a ''posi…

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

U-RWKV: Lightweight medical image segmentation with direction-adaptive RWKV
Hongbo Ye, Fenghe Tang, Peiang Zhao, Zhen Huang, Dexin Zhao, Minghao Bian, S. Kevin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11415

U-RWKV: Lightweight medical image segmentation with direction-adaptive RWKV
Achieving equity in healthcare accessibility requires lightweight yet high-performance solutions for medical image segmentation, particularly in resource-limited settings. Existing methods like U-Net and its variants often suffer from limited global Effective Receptive Fields (ERFs), hindering their ability to capture long-range dependencies. To address this, we propose U-RWKV, a novel framework leveraging the Recurrent Weighted Key-Value(RWKV) architecture, which achieves efficient long-range …

Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70% after hours (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/d…

ESPN acquiring NFL Network, RedZone from NFL https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45910378/espn-get-nfl-network-rights-redzone-nfl-equity-stake

Trump to allow cryptocurrency, private equity in 401(k)s
https://qz.com/trump-executive-action-401ks-cryptocurrency-private-equity

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…

micro victory: a now-discontinued power adapter (manufactured by a private equity-screwed company) broke last night. had a vague memory of ordering a spare several years ago & it was exactly where i vaguely remembered stashing it, ready to go.

📉 Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors
#business

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Fellow: ‘Fast and Fair’ Energy System Innovation
The Cascade Institute seeks a Fellow to contribute to our Scale Up & Acceleration research stream. The Fellow will identify pathways to accelerated energy system innovation that simultaneously promote justice, equity, and reconciliation—that, in other words, reconcile fast innovation with fair innovation.
1/2
Competition closes October 3.

DeltaHedge: A Multi-Agent Framework for Portfolio Options Optimization
Feliks Ba\'nka (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics,Information Technology), Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak (Warsaw University of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12753

DeltaHedge: A Multi-Agent Framework for Portfolio Options Optimization
In volatile financial markets, balancing risk and return remains a significant challenge. Traditional approaches often focus solely on equity allocation, overlooking the strategic advantages of options trading for dynamic risk hedging. This work presents DeltaHedge, a multi-agent framework that integrates options trading with AI-driven portfolio management. By combining advanced reinforcement learning techniques with an ensembled options-based hedging strategy, DeltaHedge enhances risk-adjusted…

[OT] Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teaching-artificial-intelligence-adapt-to-trump-era/ "updated guidelines on how the AI talks about diversity, equity and inclusion poli…

Apple is teaching its artificial intelligence to adapt to the Trump era
Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.

@… Oh my! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/8-ottawa-neighbourhoods-urgently-need-more-tre…

8 Ottawa neighbourhoods urgently need more trees. Here's where they are | CBC News
As part of the inaugural 'tree equity' analysis, city staff have identified eight priority areas across the city where more trees are badly needed.

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milliken have appeared to reject Trump administration demands tied to the restoration of federal funding. The demands reportedly include a large monetary settlement, an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and a rollback of transgender rights on campus. That rollback would ban transgender students from participating in sports, living in dorms, and likely using bathrooms …

UCLA Rejects Trump Demands To Capitulate To Anti-Trans Policies—For Now
The university has refused to bow to the President’s sweeping list of anti-transgender demands—bucking a growing trend of large universities that have caved to similar pressure.

Not good.
#USpol

Private market investments, while not technically barred from 401(k) plans, are riskier than publicly traded stocks and bonds.
They have traditionally been seen as unfit for defined contribution plans.
Consumer groups, lawmakers and some investment advisers have raised alarm about the potential harm to everyday investors.
Those concerns have been front and center.
But observers say the private asset industry, which has lobbied hard for the opening, could also expose…

Private Equity in Your 401(k). What Could Go Wrong?
Critics say an executive order that clears the way for alternative assets to enter retirement accounts poses risks to everyday investors. It could also pose some for private fund managers.

Equity Markets Volatility, Regime Dependence and Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Pacific Basin
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Saman Hatamerad, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05552

Equity Markets Volatility, Regime Dependence and Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Pacific Basin
This study investigates the relationship between the market volatility of the iShares Asia 50 ETF (AIA) and economic and market sentiment indicators from the United States, China, and globally during periods of economic uncertainty. Specifically, it examines the association between AIA volatility and key indicators such as the US Economic Uncertainty Index (ECU), the US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (EPU), China's Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (EPUCH), the Global Economic Policy Uncerta…

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01690

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Academic well-being is deeply influenced by peer-support networks, yet they remain informal, inequitable, and unsustainable, often relying on personal connections and social capital rather than structured, inclusive systems. Additionally, institutional well-being responses frequently focus on student populations, neglecting the emotional labour of faculty and staff, reinforcing an exclusionary academic culture. Drawing on HCI methodologies, participatory design, and care ethics, this workshop w…

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Solution to the Equity Premium Puzzle with Time Varying Variables
Atilla Aras

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- Equity Premium Prediction: Taking into Account the Role of Long, even Asymmetric, Swings in Stock...
Kuok Sin Un, Marcel Ausloos

Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the company raised $6B in December from a16z and others (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-raises-10-billion-debt-equi…

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10 Billion in Debt, Equity
Elon Musk’s xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions. “The combination of debt and equity reduces the overall cost of capital and substantially expands pools of capital available to xAI,” Morgan Stanley wrote in a post on X , which did not name any investors in the debt or equity. XAI raised $6

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Abhijan Theja, Mayukha Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18738 https://

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Fair and dynamic energy allocation in community microgrids remains a critical challenge, particularly when serving socio-economically diverse participants. Static optimization and cost-sharing methods often fail to adapt to evolving inequities, leading to participant dissatisfaction and unsustainable cooperation. This paper proposes a novel framework that integrates multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), cooperative game theory, and a dynamic equity-adjustment mechanism driven…

Marketron Through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Igor Halperin, Andrey Itkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09863 https://

Marketron Through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
The Marketron model, introduced by [Halperin, Itkin, 2025], describes price formation in inelastic markets as the nonlinear diffusion of a quasiparticle (the marketron) in a multidimensional space comprising the log-price $x$, a memory variable $y$ encoding past money flows, and unobservable return predictors $z$. While the original work calibrated the model to S\&P 500 time series data, this paper extends the framework to option markets - a fundamentally distinct challenge due to market incomp…

How the NFL changed its streaming strategy as the TV landscape shifted; in a first, every NFL game will be available on streaming by the end of August (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

The NFL’s Next Big Play: Owning the Media
The league isn’t content to be a ratings juggernaut for partners. As it takes equity in ESPN and Paramount Skydance, it's muscling into Hollywood’s end zone.

Fascinating:
A feature in the Financial Times reveals some very rich people have started selling up and living in motorhomes.
Obviously, they’re ultra-luxurious motorhomes. The owner of a private equity firm interviewed has a 30-tonne behemoth with air conditioning and high-speed internet, a kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms, a “spacious master bedroom” and “a range of modern hi-tech appliances”. which cost
“around $2.7m” (£2m)
I read something else about ultra-high…

The Case against Scale: Empirical Evidence of Underperformance in Large Secondary Funds
Jitesh Gurav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12436 https://

The Case against Scale: Empirical Evidence of Underperformance in Large Secondary Funds
The paper analyses the increasing popularity of large funds in the secondary private equity market, which are pegged on the perceived larger scale advantages of operational efficiency and fewer manager relationships (Reuter & Zitzewitz, 2021). However, it has been proved empirically that smaller funds perform better than the big ones in terms of their internal rates of return (IRRs). This work questions this authoritative view, providing evidence of outperformance of smaller funds relative to t…

Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B in bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a4a362a6-cc8b-4188-8658-75183a3d6f5f

The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach
Mohammed Eddaou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10571 https://…

The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach
University dropout rates in Morocco continue to increase, with approximately 49 percent of students leaving university before graduating, despite the successive reforms and measures taken to achieve Morocco's 2015_2030 strategic vision in the higher education sector : For a university of equity, quality and promotion, which raises questions about the state of knowledge on social inclusion at the university, capable of informing decision-making and the achievement of this strategic vision. While…

The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states
aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss,
a move that could affect some of the country’s most vulnerable students.
The programs are considered vital in those states but represent only a little over $1 million a year in federal money.
Nonetheless, they got caught in the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion,
with an Education Dep…

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

NFL backs NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell after potential conflict of interest arises

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-backs-n…

Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70% after hours (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/d…

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

"The white supremacists told Reuters they love Trump’s repeated praise of “Western values,” his attacks on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, and his opposition to immigration."
Nazis are having a moment—and they’re thanking Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/8/2337463/-Nazis-are-having-a-moment-and-they-re-thanking-Trump

Trump signs an EO clearing a path to add alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies into 401(k)s, instructing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance (Sarah Min/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trump-orde

Trump signs order allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrencies, private equity in 401(k)s
The executive order directs the U.S. Secretary of Labor to review fiduciary guidance on private market investments in 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans that are governed by ERISA.

Economic relativity: a cut rule for perimeter valuation in equity ownership networks
Omar Di Marzio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04520 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Economic relativity: a cut rule for perimeter valuation in equity ownership networks
We introduce the Cut-Based Valuation (CBV), a unified framework for consolidated value in equity/flow networks. The central idea is that economic value is never absolute: it is always defined relative to an observer Omega, which fixes perimeter, measurement basis, units/FX/PPP, discounting, informational regime, and control rules. Given Omega, the Cut Theorem shows that the consolidated value of a perimeter P depends only on boundary quantities across the cut P -> O, while internal reconnection…

Martin Sorrell's S4 says it is in early talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ; S4 has a ~£130M market cap after its stock has declined ~35% in 2025 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Forecasting Nigerian Equity Stock Returns Using Long Short-Term Memory Technique
Adebola K. Ojo, Ifechukwude Jude Okafor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01964 h…

Forecasting Nigerian Equity Stock Returns Using Long Short-Term Memory Technique
Investors and stock market analysts face major challenges in predicting stock returns and making wise investment decisions. The predictability of equity stock returns can boost investor confidence, but it remains a difficult task. To address this issue, a study was conducted using a Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) model to predict future stock market movements. The study used a historical dataset from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), which was cleaned and normalized to design the LSTM model. Th…

Conflict of interest now clouds tenure of NFLPA chief Lloyd Howell, who faces what should be an easy decision

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/conflic…

DOJ probes CalEPA hiring for potential racial bias
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5473143-doj-california-epa-calepa-racial-equity-newsom-trump/

Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines,
urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump
or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pol…

Trump’s Government Is a Den of Snitches, ‘Freaks,’ and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

Dotdash Meredith rebrands to People to capitalize on the brand equity of its most popular and recognizable title (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/people-magazine-publisher-rebrand-dotdash-meredith

Dotdash Meredith rebrands as People Inc.
Dotdash Meredith's rebrand into People Inc. capitalizes on brand equity in a way that its current name does not.

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contes…

The board decision that sent the MLB, NFL unions into controversy https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6442699/2025/06/22/nflpa-mlbpa-investigation-one-team-partners-equity-controversy/

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-el…

"The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits,”
Megan Greenwell wrote in an eviscerating blog postannouncing her departure.
“It’s that the people posing as experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Greenwell’s entire staff followed her lead shortly after, mass quitting largely in protest of a mandate to abandon higher-traffic stories about politics and internet od…

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares Robinhood has started offering are not equity: "We did not partner with Robinhood...and do not endorse it" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/openai-robinhood-tokens.html

OpenAI says Robinhood's tokens aren't equity in the company
OpenAI said it was not involved in Robinhood’s launch of tokenized shares in Europe, warning users the assets were issued without its approval.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law school has
💥paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate
❌ and plans to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement” this month.
The changes come as m Donald Trump’s administration pushes for an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities nationwide.
⭐️The White House has threatened to pull federal funding from those that do not comply.
Penn Carey Law in 2021 …

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.

Vice Media raises $75M in a credit facility with Western Alliance Bank to support Vice Studios; Vice co-owner Fortress is also contributing an equity investment (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/vice-media-news-studios-credit

Airalo, which offers affordable eSIM roaming packages for travelers, raised $220M at a $1B valuation (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/11/2025/singapore-esim-startup-raises-220-million

Singapore eSIM startup raises $220 million
Airalo, led by a Dubai-based founder, was valued at more than $1 billion in its latest funding round, led by private equity giant CVC.

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised €1B since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the
USNS Harvey Milk,
a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to
“re-establish the warrior culture

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn for US industrial policy, but also the least bad idea to make Foundry viable (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

U.S. Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Sources: Meta picks Pimco and Blue Owl to lead a $29B financing for its Louisiana data center expansion, providing $26B in debt and $3B in equity, respectively (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/met…

State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc…

Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/03/ondo-…

Exclusive: Ondo and Pantera Capital earmark $250 million for real-world asset tokenization
Tokenization lags only stablecoins in crypto activity.

VC firms Thrive Capital and General Catalyst are adopting the "roll-up" strategy from the PE playbook, as Khosla Ventures, 8VC, and others explore similar moves (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/74db4959-5980-4ca3-8a46-f058ef4774…

Tech venture firms deploy private equity ‘roll-up’ strategy
Thrive Capital’s backing of Savvy Wealth is part of growing effort to fund groups that go on to buy similar companies

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the company at $800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30…

Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-t

Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months
The expansion puts Coinbase in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini and Kraken, all of whom have tokenized equity offerings for users outside the U.S.

Winnipeg-based Conquest Planning, which uses AI to help financial advisors and other clients make decisions, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs (Jon Fingas/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/conquest-planning-

Conquest Planning raises $110-million Series B to fuel US expansion of its financial management platform | BetaKit
Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Winnipeg startup’s latest funding round.

The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

Nvidia's CFO says Q2 "net other income" was $2.2B, "driven by gains in a publicly-held equity security", which refers to Nvidia's position in CoreWeave (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-t

Nvidia, the asset manager, had a massive Q2 thanks to CoreWeave’s rally
“Other net income” for Nvidia is way more than most S&P 500 companies’ total net income.